[singpilot]

Rick;

So true. I always brief the passengers how when we descend from altitude, we always have a low altitude run thru western NJ (to be under the Newark and Philly arrivals). And that the beautiful countryside that we are flying over is really New Jersey.

It was a beautiful fall this year, we had a number of sunset arrivals over all the fall colors. One passenger even asked if we could turn around and do it again.... I could only imagine the reaction that would have gotten from the NY Approach controllers.

On that trip they had a guy in a Challenger that kept going slower than ordered by 20 or 30 knots. Finally, the guy admitted he was going slower because the scenery was so pretty. The NY controller then asked where he had departed from. The reply was Cleveland. The controller ordered him to climb immediatley to twelve thousand (from two thousand), and turn right, cleared direct Cleveland. The Challenger said he didn't want to go back to Cleveland, he wanted to go to Teterboro.

As only a NY accent can do, the controller then replied that when he learned to fly with the big boys he could come back to NY airspace. In the meantime, climb immediately to 12,000, turn right, cleared direct to Cleveland.

I later heard that 30 minutes later, after all of us fast guys had come thru, they let him come back in.

It's always an adventure flying into Gotham.

I arrive again tomorrow afternoon at sunset.